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The College Football Playoff is on the verge of going bigger — much bigger. ESPN has reached a handshake agreement to broadcast a twenty-four team CFP format beginning in the two thousand twenty seven season, a seismic shift for college football. Whether that's progress or just more noise depends on who you ask, and plenty of voices are already pushing back hard on the expansion.
Speaking of college football, UCLA is sitting at five and oh through six weeks of the two thousand twenty six season, but Saturday brings a serious gut check. The twelfth-ranked Bruins host a battle-tested Wisconsin squad that's four and one and playing with real edge. Coach Bob Chesney's historic start gets its toughest test yet, and unranked doesn't mean unserious when you're talking about the Badgers.
And over in baseball, the Cleveland Guardians and the Tampa Bay Rays meet tonight at eight Eastern with the game airing nationally on TBS, HBO Max, TruTV, and Univision. Both clubs are fighting for positioning as the postseason picture sharpens, so if you haven't locked in your plans for tonight, now you have them.
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